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The Strength of Knowledge in Plato’s Protagoras

Ancient Philosophy 32 (2):237-255 (2012)

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Ignorance in Plato’s Protagoras.Wenjin Liu - 2022 - Phronesis 67 (3):309-337.details Ignorance is commonly assumed to be a lack of knowledge in Plato’s Socratic dialogues. I challenge that assumption. In the Protagoras, ignorance is conceived to be a substantive, structural psychic flaw—the soul’s domination by inferior elements that are by nature fit to be ruled. Ignorant people are characterized by both false beliefs about evaluative matters in specific situations and an enduring deception about their own psychic conditions. On my interpretation, akrasia, moral vices, and epistemic vices are products or forms of (...) Epistemologies of Ignorance in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality Epistemology Plato: Early Socratic Dialogues in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Epistemology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Ethics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Philosophy of Mind in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Protagoras in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Virtue Ethics in Normative Ethics Virtues and Vices in Normative Ethics Weakness of Will in Philosophy of Action Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Knowledge and Temperance in Plato's Charmides.Justin C. Clark - 2018 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (4):763-789.details Toward the end of the Charmides, Socrates declares the search for temperance a ‘complete failure’ (175b2‐3). Despite this, commentators have suspected that the dialogue might contain an implicit answer about temperance. I propose a new interpretation: the dialogue implies that temperance is the knowledge of good and bad, when this knowledge is applied specifically to certain operations of the soul. This amounts to a kind of self‐knowledge; it also involves a kind of reflexivity, for it involves knowing about the value (...) Plato in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark
Plato's Protagoras the Hedonist.Joshua Wilburn - 2016 - Classical Philology 113 (3):224-244.details I advocate an ad hominem reading of the hedonism that appears in the final argument of the Protagoras. I that attribute hedonism both to the Many and to Protagoras, but my focus is on the latter. I argue that the Protagoras in various ways reflects Plato’s view that the sophist is an inevitable advocate for, and himself implicitly inclined toward, hedonism, and I show that the text aims through that characterization to undermine Protagoras’ status as an educator. One of my (...) Plato: Divided Soul in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Moral Psychology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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